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AUSTIN, Texas — Oftentimes those who preach sexual abstinence have been told to stop trying to impose their beliefs on others. But what if science could prove sexual permissiveness does great damage to future sexual happiness? That’s what Dr. Joe McIlhaney of the Medical Institute for Sexual Health in Austin says. New research shows that sleeping around now could ruin your chances of having a happy, fulfilling marriage later.
As policymakers in Washington, D.C., debate overhauling health care, several evangelical Christian groups have found a way of getting around the high cost of health insurance. Instead of paying premiums, they simply agree to pay each other’s medical bills. The groups are not regulated because unlike insurance there’s no guarantee an individual’s bills will be paid. That’s something members take on faith.
President Obama’s faith council delivered 64 detailed recommendations to top administration officials, Tuesday, covering a broad range of issues from responsible fatherhood to poverty and interfaith relations.
NEWS RELEASEPalm Desert, Calif., March 9 — The Mission America Coalition issued a call to churches and Christians across America last week for a “prayer-care-share approach” to “loving their neighbors to Christ.” “We need a new surge of evangelism and discipleship in America,” Dr. Paul Cedar, chairman of the Coalition, said in an interview at the group’s annual gathering in Birmingham, Ala. last week. “The average evangelical Christian in America has such a resistance to being involved in evangelism. I’m convinced that fear, not wrong motive, is the major factor. They are just afraid.”
Why are so many of us flocking to the theater when we’re pinching pennies more now than in decades? And why are we spending our hard-earned money on movies about the end of existence?
Walid Shoebat, a former Palestinian terrorist, sounded a warning about Islam to a Madison church audience Sunday. Speaking to several hundred people who had gathered at Grace Evangelical Church, 4127 County AB, Shoebat presented a strong argument that out of Islam will come the anti-Christ of Biblical prophecy.
The recession has deflated many high-flying careers. James Bartylla upended his on purpose years ago.Once a jet-setting financial analyst earning six figures and traveling the globe, Bartylla gave up what he calls his single-minded quest for business success to enter a Catholic seminary at 34.Now known as Monsignor Bartylla, he was promoted in December by Madison Bishop Robert Morlino to vicar general, the second-in-command in the Madison Catholic Diocese.
(RNS) Before stepping aboard her first cruise back in December 2008, Pam Biedenbender and her husband attended Mass at a Catholic church in Miami; later, onboard the Carnival Valor, she learned she’d have to miss Christmas Mass because the ship had no priest.
BEVERLY HILLS, CA (ANS) — Dr. Ted Baehr has been organizing the annual Movieguide® awards for eighteen years now. How has Hollywood changed since Baehr first began?“When we started doing the Movieguide® event, there was only one movie with positive Christian content. Last year it was forty-three percent of the movies — which is quite incredible — and this year it’s over fifty-four percent of the movies. You know they keep making more money every year, all these figures are going to bottom out.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (FBC) – A reported 40,127 Haitians have made professions of faith in Jesus Christ since the Jan. 12 earthquake hit the impoverished nation, according to pastors and the director of missions of the Confraternite Missionaire Baptiste d’Haiti (CMBH).“Haiti is ripe for a spiritual movement from God,” said Craig Culbreth, director of the Florida Baptist Convention Partnership Missions Department, which coordinates the work of the CMBH, upon his Feb. 22 return from Port-au-Prince.